The Sun. — London, England, 1809-09-13 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH', SEPT, I 1.--Carrie in the Intrepid man of war, from the West Indies ; and'the Orestes sloop of wa horn a cruize. Sailed the Harlequin with a fleet to the Eastward. FALMOUTH, AUG. 10.—Sailed the Eliza packet for Gibraltar arid Malta, and the Princess /Intend ditto- for the Brazils. DEAL, SEPT. 12.—Arrived the *Era frigate , with transports and troops from Flushing. The following is an Extrati of a Letter from off Flushing, dated the Bth instant : " The whole of our advanced squadron that were up the Scheldt have come down. Our troops have evacuated Beve land, and the French have again taken. pos,ession of it. We keep Watcheren, at least for the winter, and are'making every preparation for its safety, by surrounding it with gun-boats, Sc. The troops in garrison are very sickly ; it is reported no less a num ber than 8000 are still in Walcheren. A fleet of transports sail this day for England with troops, and I understand Flushing, Middlebnrgh, &C. are to be garrisoned with 16,00 u men. The enemy hive an immense flotilla up the river at J,illo. I had an op portunity of seeing them every day there for three weeks past, and sincerely regret the opportunity was not given us to attack them. We expect to return borne very soon." It has long been a desideratum with the possessors of the Cape of Good Hope, to promote an extensive intercourse with the numerous tribes which inhabit the Southern Districts of the vast Peninsula of Africa. On this subject we have been favoured with a letter, of which the following is an extra& Cape of Good Hope, May 28, 18 09 , " I entertain some expetiation of falling in on the coast with the party sent by his Lordship (Lord Ca ledon), into the interior. They had penetrated in December so far as lit. 25. and long. 21. so that t here is every hope of their having by this time reached Some of the Portuguese Settlements. Th e i nfo , ma _ tion which they have already sent down is interest ing. The country which they have passed through, is rich end fertile, with numerous liters, all • of which invariably bend their' courses tor-the West. The tribes which they hav o t met with are peaceably inclined ) and it appears not unlikely that they may in time be brought to some Rind of intercourse or trade with this settlement, a circumstance which I conceive would be , most beneficial to them, in spite of all that Vaillant has written, whose Hottentot An gels in a wild state, were certainly fiEtions of his ow n brain. The camel has been seen, but it is not men tioned whether wild, or bearing merchandize tram some distant quarter. All this you will, no doubt, in a short time hear the particulars of, as any infor mation communicated by Lord Oledon. on this sub ject, will soon be spread over London. Some skins of different animals have been sent down, but none very curious," The late Malta Mail has brought no political in telligence; its contents having been anticipated by previous arrivals ) both from Malta and Gibraltar =--- A letter from Cadiz of he •29th ult, contains the fol lowing particulars ) which will be interesting to our mercantile readers " Several alterations have taken plate in the Spa. Wish CuStom-House Department ) favourable to Bri tish-ctitntne-rce. Besides the admission of all cotton rnanufaCtured goods (hitherto rigorously prohibited) a great deduction has taken place in the duties on woollen and other goods. Newfoundland fish only pays 27 reals of vellon, instead of 45 American ; and Norway fish are excluded from those indulgencies. '• Tliese cessions, so highly favourable to British trade, it is presumed will induce the Government to put the produds of Spain on an equal footing with the most favoured nations, particularly in the article of Spanish red wines, which pay the enormous duty of 121. per ton more than wine from R , rtugal. 6' With respeft to Foreigners trading to South America, no relaxation has taken place, or alteration made in the forger regulations." SWINDLING SET TO MUSIC --A country-looking man lately called at a haberdasher's shop, with a fiddle under his arm ; and after purchasing and pay ing for seine trifling article which he pretended to want, asked to be allowed to leave his purchase and bis fiddle, till he did some other business through the town. He had scarcely gone, when in comes an accomplice (as it turned out), who observing the fiddle, takes it up and tries it, and is quite charmed with it. " This is the most charming fiddlel have ever met with, is it for sale ?—l'd give fifty guineas for that fiddle." He was to ld it was not for sale, but belonged to a countryman 'who had just left it there till lie should make some other calls.—" When be comes back fur it, try and buy it from him— make the best bargain with hin? you can fez your self, but whatever you buy it at, I promise to give you fitlV guineas for it, and will -call again by and by." lie and by back comes the countryman p for hi s fiddl e . " Will you part with that says , the haberdasher, " I have taken a fancy for ? The man answered, he had no intention of:par:- jug-with his fiddle, for he knew it to be a very good one, and did not know it he would get such aoothet. " give you fifty shillings' fur.ii," said the haber dasher. " N o , no." Fi ve gsiineas for said the haberdasher. " not take twenty," the countryman.—l n short, after a great deal of chap manship, the baberd;:sher' got the fiddle at,forty guineas ; and a happy man was he, as thinking he bad made ten guineas by she bargain. but lie has been 'allowed to k e e p the fiddle, to solac e himself for The fifty-guinea merchant the loss of his money. never returned. As the Parish Chureif at Leeds was undergoing some repairs, the workmen found a stone cOtlin, containing a complete skeleton, and the bones of two ‘otbier human snbjeas, under the foundation of the Church, near the entrance to the bell- chamber. The coffin has been cut out of a solid block seven feet long, by a foot and a half deep ; its internal dimensions are six feet three inches in length, about twelve inches deep, and between two or three feet wide. The stone which formed the cover bore. no inscription. From the situation in which it was found, it .ntist have lain in that place ever since the Church was erected, probably more than 700 - years. The air w as so ' comp l ete l y excluded, that the b ones 'cumi n as firm and entire as if lately interred. THE 'EW ThErairii , . We have authority to say that the account given in our Paper of yesterday, .of the New Theatre, in Covent Garden, was in several respe&s inCorred, and that the following is a More accurate description of this magnificent strufture . . The semi-circular form in which the Boke§ and Galleries are disposed aff;)rds a perfe& view of the Stage froth every point. The front of the Boxes are bf cream colour, with Greek ornaments in gold, upob a pink ground and gold mouldings. / The Boxes are. also supported by gold fluted columns. In each Bo:t there are three ro*s of seats, with light blue cover ings. The three circles of Boxes are furnished with large chandeliers, elegantly mounted. The Pit, besides its usual lateral pas Sages, has two central passages, which extend through its whole length from the front Boxes to the Orchestra, an improvement, the advantage of which will be most beneficially telt both in egressand ingress, when the house is crowded. It ought also to be mentioned, that the seats in the Pit are gradually elevated in manner which will greatly conduce to the conve nience of the audience. The eye of each individual will be raised so high, that it will be,iinpossible for the head of the person sitting before him to intercept his view of the Stage. The beats are 25 inches broad, and are covered with light blue cloth, edged with scarlet. The lower Gallery, behind which there is a large saloon, is-calculated to contain about 900 persons. The upper Gallery will contain 200 or 250, and is 20 feet nearer the Stage than the same gallery was in the late Drury-lane Theatre. The private Boxes have a separate staircase of stone. The Entrance Hall from Bow-street is of stone, and is 40 feet square. The grand Stone Staircase leading to the Boxes is 1§ feet wide. On each side are stone landings, with magnificent colonnades of red porphyry pillars, the capitals and bases of whiCh are of white marble. The walls are of white veined marble. The Anti-room is adorned with red porphyry pilasters, with.good capitals and vases. A.beauti- Sul statue of SHAKESPEARE, seven tee► high, on a pedestal of yellow Sienna marble, is placed in this room, so as to front the grand staircase, and to strike the eye in ascending. It is executed by Rosst. The Corridors surrounding the Boxes are nine feet wide, and are paved with stone. ' The Saloon, which is 60 feet long, has red vein ed marble pilasters at each end ; paintings in Chiaro Oscuro on each side, and sofas with scarlet 'covers and black velvet borders. The prevailing colour in the Corridors and Saloon is green. The entrance from the PlaZza is by a double flight of stone steps the walls are also of stone, and the whole is lighted by antique lamps, placed on tripods of bronze. Taste and judgment have concurred in producing the union of beauty and convenience.— Nothing can be more elegant than the ornaments, and nothing more perfect than the accommodation provided for the public. The conununicativn trorn One part of the house to another is complete, being facilitated by staircases, by one may go from the Stage or the Pit to the Upper Gallery in a few minutes, Large reservoirs of water have been judi ciously formed, from which pipes lead to every part of the house. These conduits are of a verviconsi derable diameter, and would in an instant inundate any spot ,to which it might be necessary to &red the fluid. With regard to the Stage, it is particularly re markable for its magnitude. There is ample space for the most complex machinery, for the display of processions, and for every thing that may contribute to the illusion and magic effed of scenic represen tation. We ought not to conclude without mentioning a very great improvem-nt in the doors, which not only facilitates admission, but which affords the most satisfaatory means of security in case any acci dent should render the immediate evacuation of tl►e Theatre necessary. The doors now, instead of openitg backwards or forwards, upon touching a spring, slide latterly, and are wholly removed from the passages, so that there is not the least impedi ment to the egress or regress of the audience. The arrangement for the ensuing performances of the Drury-lane Company, at the Lyceum, has been inaccurately stated in a Paper of this day. Mr. AR NOLD'S license was for the representation of new English Operas during the summer. Colonel GRE viLLE's license was for the same representations du ring the winter, but neither of them authorized the representation of the regular English Drama. - It be came, therefore, necessary to obtain a third license, for to have abed -.cider the authority of the Draiy lane' Patent, with so many renters and creditors, was quite out of the question, unless those renters and cre ditors would have suspended their claims. The Lord Chamberlain, considering the state of things, and the perplexing condition of the Drury-lane Com pany, has liberally ranted a third license, which, till the rebuilding of the Theatre, will haVe n►l the force of the Patent. The profits of the season are to be divided between Mr. ARNOLD, for the use of his theatre, Colonel GREVILLE, for keeping his li cense dormant, and the Trustees of Drury-lane Theatre, to be allotted to the purposes of the trust deed, for the general interests of that property. The Duenna was again represented last night at the Lyceum before a numerous audience, and was so well sustained in all its charaders as to justify the warm applause it received. QUICK bad all his ori ginal alertness and humour in Isaac. Mrs. Monti- TAra, by her excellent singing in Clara, proved that she is quite recovered. Mrs. OHGER was very in teresting in Loaisa, and PHILLIPS sung admirably in Carlos. DOYLE and OXBERRY in Father Paul, and the famished Lay Brother, were highly effective. The Hay-market Theatre has been very produc tive this season, and has been not a little indebted to The Foundling of the Forest, and Killing no Mar. , der. On Sunday evening as Mr. Cooley of the Pave ment, Nloorfields, was returning on horseback from Edmonton, owing to the darkneis of the night, he came in contact with the chaise of Mr. Ddshongs, the bhafis of which which penetrated his body. He was conveyed to the nearest house, and attended by a Gentleman of the Faculty. He however died a few WWI after in the greatest agony. TO THE MTN?. OF THE SUM Multis terribilis, caveto multos. MR. EDITOR, As there are rumours of the possibility that a Ge iera 1 Congress may take place on. the Continent, for the purpose of laying the foundation of a gene. ral peace, however visionary those rumours may be, and however difficult it is to conceive that the ambi tion of BUONAPARTE will ever be confined within any limits, or his vengeaucti against this country ever be dintiniThed; yet as he must himself, if he has nny moments of retle6tion, be apprehensive that the Jpatience of mankind may be tried too far, a few observatiOns, arising from the'rumours alhided to, mq not be undeserving the attention of the public, or the notice of our Rulers. The bare report [bit an English 'Nobleman of known abilities , and considerable experience in the diplomhtic province, has been selected as a proper representative of this country. at such a .Congress, made some slight impression on the funds, and can not have passed without 'exciting some refleCtions in the public at large, though, indeed there is hardly any reason for believing that the rumours altogether have "any inundation in truth. But the subject itself is•important, however remote it may be from all hope, of practicA discussion, and will sufficiently justify me in requesting the admission of a few re marks in your valuable paper. It has been observed that one of the chief motives which will probably operate op the mind of BUONA POTE, and induce him some time or other serious ly to think 'of peace with this country, notwith standing the vast power he has acquired, and the prostrate state of the Continent, will be his desire to obtain the acknowledgment of Great Britain to his Sovereignty. That be must be anxious to attain the recoenition of this country, with all his arro gance, gance, can certainly not be doubted, particutarly as such a recognition must not only relate to his own immediate pretensions as a Sovereign, but to the .pretensions of all his kindred whom he has elevated to monarchical dignity, as well as to those of every other Sovereign who depends on his favour. It may be presumed, therefore, that the British Govei meat will feel the due value of such an acknowledg ment, and not be disposed to concede so much to the French Emperor, except upon solid groOnds. But one of the strongest arguments which' may be urged- in opposition to any, high pretensions of BtIONAPARTE 7 S, is the uncertain slate of that Go-' vernment which ,he has erected,- and which lay in a moment tumble into pieces on his death. What ever treaties he may form, must have a strong and in timate connexion with his own life, and therefore there is not that.security for a continuance of peace between France and tins country,whichattended any amicable relations between the two States, while the fortner was in the hands of a legitimate power, founded upon long herid►tary right. This we may conceive to be a strong plea for the British Ministers to urge -in any future negotiations with Buot,2A PARTE, and which ,he must admit to be so. Be sides, DOE only the dynasty of BOONArARTE may end wish his life, as his power may be said to de pend almost solely on his personal character and in fluence; but it instill more probable that when such an event takes place, there will be an immediate end to the sovereignties of all Ins family. It is conse quently a matter of great Mapco:ice for BeoNA rA R re to establish an amicable connection with Great Britain, as those very States which he now compels to combine against us way, on his dent it, unite with more eagerness to crush the remains of ..hat power which has brought them to such real lintniliation and imbecility, however some of them rarity appear to have been raised into greater nominal distinction. — These observations cannot be nugatory, because some people have already, i.ce find, been speculating upon peace as an event that is not so tar reinoteas the world in general seems inclined to suppose. There certainly can be no doubt that if any negociations should beopcned with France, through the interven tion of Austria, that the present Ministers will dis play as much sound discretion, vigour, and firm ness in maintaining the national honour, as they have shewn, since they have been in office, in providing for our domestic proteaion, and assert ino,- our national strength, wnerever the enemy was tr', increase his power of annoying us ; nor should the disappointment of some of our views in the Expedition against Flanders, or the present gloomy state of affairs in Spain, tend to make this country relax in its pretensions to uphold its rank in the scale of nations,, and to take an important part in any negociations which may be brought forward to give Europe that repose tor which it has so long panted, and which has been obstruted by the insa tiable ambition of an arrogant Usurper. BRUTUS. Letters of as late a date as to the 2d of this month, from the North of Spain, all concur in stating, that every province adjacent to the Pyrenean frontier is abandoned by the enemy, except in the immediate neighbourhood of the fortrelses of Barcelona, Figue ras, and Rrinipeluna. The following is one of the letters which via; sent by express from Santander to the port from which it is Limed, by a vessel freighted for the purpose of its conveyance. " Guos, SEPT. I.—Santander is now in pos session of the right ewners, having neon evacuated Vith ult. by all the French, owing to a check. Baliasteros had given them on the same day, in the environs of Torra de la Vega, in which he succeed ed in taking or destroying the French regiment No. 119. We are in hourly expectation of his doing the same to No. 1.2 u, which is the only one Bonnet has to oppose a division of iSI,OOO men now under Ballasteros' command. From this and other circumstances it is now to be hoped that the pro vince of Santander will be liberated from the fatal incursions of these cruel intruders. A. vessel will, no doubt, be diSpatched from the Commodore, (Ai Santander, with die particulars of the transaction." A letter has been received with;n these few days, from an Officer of the 23d regiment, w ho was among those returned as missing at the battle of Talavera. He bad been very severely wounded, and was taken prisoner; and we have pleasure in stating, as a sails faEtion to those whose friends may be in a similar nation, that be mentions his being attended by a skilful surgeon, and treated with Iturnanity and kipcluegs. 'TOCKHOLM. SEPTEMBER rd". sr I informed you many months ago what t Conceived to be the objets which Colonel ADLEtt• SPARRB had in view : the deposition of GUSTAVUS 'IV. and the nomination of the Prince of AUGUSTAN BURG as hiS successor to the crown of wedeli. In both these ohjeEls, Colonel ADLERSPARRE has suet ceeded. The King has informed the Diet, 014 Prince AIiGUSTENBURG accepts with senttineilis of gratitude the highest dignity which the nation could confer, but declines interfering in State atfoir4, ontil the restoration of pence ; an event which, it is to be hoped, will speedily happen. A negoliatiOn for the accomplishment of that deilrable object is opened at Fredericksharn. " The Negociators on the part of Sweden are 13.31 - 011STEDENGIc and Col. SCHOLDEBRAND ; and oti the part of Russia, the Emperor's Minister for Foreign . Affairs, assisted by one of the Secretaries. Considerable progress has been made in thenegociation , anddam as• sured from unquestionable aut hurity, that the only at - - ticlesw hich produce a difference olopipiun are, the pro positiou for shutting the ports of Sweden against ships freighted with articles of British manufacture, and British colonial produce; the possession of Aland and the boundaries of Russian Finland, viz, whether the river Remi or Calix shall- be the line,of demark ation ; but as both parties seem to he actuated by the true spirit of conciliation, uo doubt is entertained At to the result.. " The King hiving made a proposition for the maintenance of GusTArus, the Secret Committee of the Diet have recommended an inventory to be . taken ofall his effects; but as this would take too much time, it was resolved that GOsrAvus is himself tct state what property he has, and the Diet will decide accordingly. He has abandoned the idea of resid- , ing in Wisingo, and as he is not permitted to. prciceed to Christianfeldt, it is thopght he- will. take up his abode in Switzerland." On Wednesday evening last Chester and itS tieigha bourhood was visited with_ a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied %s ith At or near PecktiAton,_ where it appears to have been most violent, a. ball of fire descended the chimney of Robert Arden, while himself and fa mily were sitting in the house : the electric flu;cl providentially took such a direction, as to leave every individual unhurt. Two cows, belonging to Mr. Shaw, of Tarpofley-ball, were struck dead by the lightning white grazing in the fiend; as were also seven sheep on Buckley Comnion ; and a large pop. lar tree standing between Tarporley and Peckforton was struck, and -split into innutnerable pieces. BOXING MATCH. ---A pitched battle for 200 gui neas was fiiught on Monday in Braybrook Park,Wiltg, the seat of Major Cope, betwixt Flowers, the fight ing coachman, of considerable provincial tame, and . Isaac Jarvis, a professor, from the pits of Lanidowne; the former of whoin.was backed by rtie Major, and the latter by P. ,Harris, Esq. and another amateur.-- At setting to, the betting was in favour of Jarvii, at 6 to 4.' The contest was the most obstinate that had ever been witnessed in that part of the country, and resembles that between Gully and Gregsun, at, Newmarket, more than any other the amateurs in that 'part recollect, in respeEt to what they call slaughter; and the science and bottoM, they say,were equal to the performance'of young welcher, or the gluttony of Crib. The',combataitts stood to each other manfully, and stopped until one was off his legs, very unliketbe modern town boxers. Half a minute frequently elapsed before a blow could be put in, the stops were so dexterously managed 3 but after fighting three quarters of an hour, both the men lost their powers of hitting at intervals, and at this stage of the battle;stopping was dispensed with. The blows put in in the former part of the battle were terrific,which the champions bore marks of. Flowers lost the battle by a tall, after fighting an hourand ten minutes. The winner is nearly equal to the champions of the me. tropolis, Gully and Crib. FIRE-EATER.—Fhe ingenious and learned anti. quary Mr. STRUTT, in his account of the sports and pastimes of England, page 181, mentions the extraordinary performances of the Fire-eater Powell, well known in the kingdom about fifty years ago. In the year 1753, he visited Ches ter, and exhibited his surprising performances for several evenings, in a large room called Eaton's-room, in Watergate.street, which was some years afterwards the scene of a dreadful calamity. Mr. Powell then eat burning coals from the fire ; he put a large bunch of matches lighted in his mouth, and blew the smoke of the sulphur through. his nostrils ; he carried a red-hot heater round the room in his teeth, and lighting a piece of charcoal, he placed it in his mouth, into which a•small gridiron was introduced, and a bit of beef-steak put into it, whilst one of the speaators with .3 pair of bellows, blew up the charcoal to prevent the heat decreasing till the meat was sufficiently broiled. By way of conclu sion, he made a composition of pitch, brimstone, sealing-wax, and lead ; the whole was melted in an iron ladle over the fire, with a spoon of the same metal he eat it up, and called it his s ; ilip, in its state of liquidation blazing furiously, without appe.iring to sustain the least injury. , His ( Th arp a t the top of his hand bills was—Sum So/us.—Th3 provincial paper from w !lie!) this paragraph is co pied, concludes it thus :—The communicator of this anecdote saw his performance when a boy, and actually eat a part of the beef steak that was thus broiled in his mouth ! ! ! A few days ago, the wife of a respeetable trades tinn near Marsh-gate, on the Surrey side of West minster-bridge, eloped with a dashing coachwaker of the neighbourhood of ,St. George's-fields. The panics have been discovered by the hu.band, who has commenced an aCtioa against the seducer, who is a married man ; the lady is mother to five children CORN-EXCHANGE, SEPT. 13.—Wheat this day is again in short supply, and sales thereof are fully at last prices ; Barley and Malt likewise, and in short supply ; Peas and . Beans of the two k►nds, nearly at the last currency ; there are some flesh arrivals of Oats, and tolerable supplies un hand, but prime samples are quoted dearer ; Flour rather higher, and fine American at our last quotation. Wheat -74 s a 9ss a t,cs pick Beans - -46 s a ”3, Fine ditto - - teBs a t tzs Oats —28 s 3«s a ;Ss Rye - . - . sos a 56 < Poland ditto -38 s a 4,-)5 Barley . . -42 s a 48S Potatoe ditto - —s a 425 Malt - . - 7SS a b4s Rape Seed • . soi a S5 l White Pease -84 s a 9,::s Fine Hout - gos 9ss Grey ditto - - Os a is Seconds ... ft -, 4, 1 1.a0t 0 4. 1 Beans . . , s6s a 611